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EVANS v. SHARPLEY

No. 89-CA-0019.

607 So.2d 1210 (1992)

Mrs. Patricia A. EVANS, Adult, and Martisha S. Evans, Minor, without Legal Guardian, who Sues by Her Adult Mother, Patricia A. Evans, as Next Friend v. David G. SHARPLEY and Truax Trucking Company, Inc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 8, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Farese, John B. Riemenschneider, Farese Farese & Farese, Ashland, for appellants.

Thomas A. Bell, Randolph C. Wood, Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, Jackson, for appellees.

En Banc.

ROY NOBLE LEE, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Patricia A. Evans filed a wrongful death suit on behalf of herself and her minor child in the Circuit Court of Marshall County, Mississippi, seeking $5,000,000 in compensatory damages and $1,000,000 in punitive damages due to the death of Robert L. Evans, husband and father of the Evans. Evans obtained a valid default judgment against Truax. After a hearing on a Writ of Inquiry, July 23, 1988, the court fixed damages against...

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